Subj : NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, August 29 To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Aug 29 2024 00:15:06 NYT Connections today hints and answers for Thursday, August 29 (game #445) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:02:00 +0000 Description: Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need clues. What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Wordle hints and answers , Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too. SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. NYT Connections today (game #445) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times) Today's NYT Connections words are PLAYER GAMBLE BROWN YOUNG COUNT SMITH NOBLE DUKE UPRIGHT CONSIDER GRAND JUDGE ELECTRONIC REGARD HOWARD JOHNSON NYT Connections today (game #445) - hint #1 - group hints What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups? Yellow: They have keys Green: Think about Blue: Places of learning Purple: Something & something Need more clues? We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles NYT Connections today (game #445) - hint #2 - group answers What are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups? YELLOW: KINDS OF PIANOS GREEN: DEEM BLUE: U.S. COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES PURPLE: SECOND NAMES IN COMPANIES WITH AMPERSANDS Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. NYT Connections today (game #445) - the answers (Image credit: New York Times) The answers to today's Connections, game #445, are YELLOW: KINDS OF PIANOS ELECTRONIC, GRAND, PLAYER, UPRIGHT GREEN: DEEM CONSIDER, COUNT, JUDGE, REGARD BLUE: U.S. COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES BROWN, DUKE, HOWARD, SMITH PURPLE: SECOND NAMES IN COMPANIES WITH AMPERSANDS GAMBLE, JOHNSON, NOBLE, YOUNG My rating: Hard My score: Fail Yeah, OK, this was just too difficult for me. That's my fifth Connections fail in the past 12 days, which implies either that I'm not very good at this, or that this game has gotten harder recently. I don't really have any complaints here, beyond that the blue 'universities' group is very, very difficult for those players who are not in the US as I am not. I did spot BROWN and DUKE, but didn't know any other possibles and simply guessed blindly until I lost. Purple was even harder. Again, I spotted a couple of options in JOHNSON (& Johnson) and (Proctor &) GAMBLE, but NOBLE and YOUNG no chance. I now realize that NOBLE must relate to BARNES &, but am still none the wiser about YOUNG. To make matters worse, even yellow and green were quite tough. I'm still yet to lose a Wordle in nearly 1,000 games, but Connections is an entirely different matter this game is hardcore. How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know. Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Wednesday, 28 August, game #444) YELLOW: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT MONKEY BARS, SLIDE, SWINGS, TEETER-TOTTER GREEN: FOUND AT THE END OF A STRING/CORD PENDULUM, TEA BAG, TETHERBALL, YO-YO BLUE: DESCRIBED AS DRY DESERT, HUMOR, MARTINI, TEETOTALER PURPLE: BABY ___ BLUES, BOOMER, STEPS, TEETH What is NYT Connections? NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult. On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room. It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers. It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile. ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-29-august -2024 --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .